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Una formación en antropología que permita una visión del hombre con
sentido. Desde una profunda comprensión de lo más humano se hace más acce-
sible el corazón de los hombres, y son más comprensibles los problemas funda-
mentales de su existencia —el amor, la muerte, el compromiso, la felicidad—;
cuestiones con las que el comunicador se enfrenta a diario.
Josemaría Escrivá foresaw the vast public incidence the work of commu-
nicators would have and the importance of information in modern society. His
message of personal holiness through ordinary work invited to elevate also in this
profession each news item —each task— to an occasion of showing the truth, the
value and the dignity of the human being, and an occasion to serve the world and
men.
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A more practical formation that may allow for initiatives that apart from
the excellence in professional quality, be attractive formulas that guarantee also
audience success. Enterprises and initiatives that without resorting to sensation-
alist means may obtain good entrepreneurial results. Attractive and quality pro-
ducts that at the same time spread a Christian sense of life, foster peaceful coex-
istence between different cultural groups or reflect a transcendent outlook of
man.
This integral education will reflect on the correct practice of the profession
and the interior freedom essential to face the demands of the market, the audi-
ence, information rectification, source reliability or the direction of the means of
communciation. Each moment of daily work is an opportunity to reflect unity of
life. It is not only on exceptional situations where excellence — either profes-
sional or human —, must be sought. Each moment of work, including those with-
out apparent relevance, are an opportunity gained or lost. Transforming daily
work in an opportunity recquires responding with a heroic attitude, with opti-
mism and determination, such as the participants of the work group have high-
lighted of the disposition and personality of Blessed Josemaría.
The university institution is presented as the adequate place for this inte-
gral formation. The university must not only respond to a technical or practical
education but must also be a privileged place for the formation of people. In this
context, university directors and lecturers are responsible to contribute in the
good education of those who turn to them, and to continue through their job
The way in which the communicator has to respond at work to his Christ-
ian vocation does not mean to make his enterprises or projects confessional.
Rather on the contrary, to show the human being a Christian way, what is needed
is to know man deeply and to present him from an anthropology that responds to
his dignity. The practitioner’s answer must be based on his individual freedom,
taking on, with his own personal responsibility, the consequences of his decisions
and respecting the different possible solutions to the same question. Personal
freedom — inseparable from personal responsibility — is essential for profes-
sional practice and involves a profound respect to the freedom of others and the
defence of an authentic pluralism of criteria and opinion. Non-confessionality
does not imply opting for neutrality, because information must not stop half way
between a truth and a lie. The criteria followed by every information practitioner
must be to search and spread the truth. To succeed, ensuring justice of informa-
tion, it is necessary to have a solid and deep intellectual, doctrinal and profes-
sional formation.
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